Criminal Law

The mere passage of time does not end habitual offender status when the order requires restoration of driving privileges, the Court of Appeals says; defendant’s conviction for second or subsequent offense operating a motor vehicle after being declared a habitual ...

Defendant cannot avoid his bench trial conviction for third or subsequent felonious violation of a protective order by challenging the sufficiency of evidence and his prior violations lacking an act of violence, the Court of Appeals says: the circumstantial evidence ...

A Norfolk U.S. District Court says its order granting defense counsel’s motion to withdraw from representation is not appealable by defendant as an interlocutory appeal, and defendant is required to retain counsel or have the court appoint new counsel. The ...

A retired Petty Officer First Class who had a top secret security clearance and served as cryptologic technician aboard U.S. submarines, and who has been charged with attempted espionage under 18 U.S.C. § 794(a) in an undercover operation by FBI ...

The 4th Circuit upholds terrorism-related convictions of three defendants who conspired to support violent jihad, and rejects their challenges to the trial court’s evidentiary rulings; the sufficiency of the evidence to support their convictions, which included their Facebook postings and ...

A defendant who was captured on store surveillance videos using “cloned” credit cards with his name and re-encoded information from stolen credit and debit cards cannot overturn his conviction of credit and debit card fraud by challenging the trial court’s ...

The Court of Appeals affirms a man’s conviction for peeping into a dwelling, third or subsequent offense, based on identification of him through fingerprints and a description of him by the woman into whose apartment he peeped. The woman observed ...

The Court of Appeals affirms defendant’s conviction of internet solicitation of a minor for a sex act based on his online conversations with an undercover officer posing as a 13-year-old girl who was home alone after being suspended from school. ...

The Court of Appeals affirms denial of defendant’s motion to suppress based on his challenge to his encounter with a police vehicle in a cul de sac in an undeveloped part of a subdivision; the initial encounter between police and ...

A police officer was justified in patting down defendant, whom he suspected of trespassing in a public housing complex and who kept putting his hands back in his pockets after the officer repeatedly asked him to remove his hands; the ...